<p>Ivy league rejects: I’ve heard this thrown around a bit but have never personally experienced it. </p>
<p>food: It’s college food…</p>
<p>Emory village: 24-hr cvs, starbucks, panera bread, dominoes, and about 5-7 other decent restaurants. The only thing it’s missing is a bar.</p>
<p>If Emory is in your top 2, you need to bite the bullet and come down here. It might be a waste of money if you do not like the school, but it would be an even bigger waste of time and money if you decide to come here and then hate it. Conversely, you could go elsewhere based on responses in this thread and miss out on your dream school. I honestly may not have come if I didn’t visit.</p>
<p>Since this thread relates to social life, anyone have any opinions about/experiences with Emory’s transfer students entering the student body? So far, everyone sounds like they’re pretty happy. I’d just like to know if any current students on this thread have any transfer student friends, if it was hard for them to make friends, how Emory encourages/facilitates “mingling”, etc. I’m a pretty friendly person, but I guess one thing I’m concerned about is that I don’t drink. I’m not even legal yet anyway. However, I’m not opposed to hanging out with people who drink…as long as they don’t get absolutely hammered. With that aside, I see myself doing a lot of fun things at Emory. </p>
<p>On a side note–anyone have any opinions about what the most “vibrant” clubs (large, diverse, biggest presence) are at Emory? Any fun/interesting “underdog” clubs or groups that you’ve run into? I realize that it’s all relative, I’m just curious about anyone’s opinion. Thanks :)</p>
<p>for transfers, first semester will be hard. all emory gave us was a two hour orientation and a ice cream social. returning students weren’t very receptive or friendly, so most transfers stuck together. however, people became slightly more integrated second semester after rush.</p>
<p>That sucks. Wondering if transfer students for every university are treated that way.
Would expect the opposite. Returning students should be more interested in others who completed semesters at other universities.</p>
<p>Daniel: Don’t take that as “I will be treated with hostility”. Take it more as treated with indifference. Keep in mind that over say 1-2 years some intense cliques or friendships can form, and they can become rigid (I mean, we went through several bonding experiences starting at freshman orientation). I personally think Emory students care less (they don’t view you as a person who does not deserve to be here and transfers often fit right in cause no one cares at all.) if you are a transfer, they just don’t know you in any fashion, so you are treated as if you are just another Emory student they don’t know. After a certain point, many care less about making new friends for some reason. Fortunately, there are lots of people who do want to, so the social life of a transfer is not destined to suck the first semester.</p>
<p>Generally, Emory freshmen will be very open to others during the two months or so, while they are still trying to find their group of friends. It’s only during this time that one can for example, feel comfortable going to the DUC and randomly sitting at a table with all freshmen strangers. However, past that and into second semester freshmen year cliques will inevitably form and people here just tend to stay in their own groups and are generally less open to making new friends. And as berine12 said, it’s not because they look down on someone else, but because they just don’t know him/her. So as a transfer, you will have to try harder to put yourself out there but if you try you probably won’t be all alone for your remaining 3 years. </p>
<p>As an example, a friend of mine (who was also one of bernie12’s suitemates last year) transferred to Emory his sophomore year. First semester he was generally depressed and would mostly just stay in his room aside from going to class, as happens pretty often for transfer. However second semester he really opened up after his roommate at the time introduced him to his group of friends after getting to know the transfer student a bit better. Long story short, I wouldn’t worry about not fitting into Emory in the long run (both socially and extracurricularly), even though it may seem like it first semester. You have to find just one group to fit in.</p>